Newspapers / The Weekly Raleigh Register … / Oct. 24, 1845, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
t $ V' I- COM MU'N 1 C A t f 0 N. TO PARENTS AN p TEACHERS. MHHCft IWb We have began thia No. with connexion of names apparently incongruous, but only apparently, for eve ry Parent it, or ought to be, a Teacher, and every Teacher it in one sense a Parent ; he it to in the power delegated to him to Control am! punish his pu jiile, in responsibility for their improvement, and not frequently in lore and anxiety for their welfare, r In the preparation of our articlet we have prefer fed brevity, not because it n the soul of wit, but be Cause we have much to aay, oar leisure hi limited, tad wa art partiemUrly desirous that they ahould be Mad by these labouring Fathers, who, afler the toilt f the day, hare not time or inclination for the peru ' aal Of long disquisitions : wo shoaid feci much com plimented, if tbey ronld re trough onn Mor aoporific quality begins most decidedly to operate. Wo have aaid in a previous No. that Teachers thouid be pttient, firm, discriminating, impartial, but bo reasont why, or detaile were given ; besides the portrait which we drew of the uneaceplionable . Teacher applied rather to those tuited to the higher department of the Profession than to the Teachers of Common Schools, who are perhaps the moat in dispensable and valuable of the class. ' lit. Patient. Why t it is generally admitted that . he trials, of the TeaoheY are greater in number and stronger la degree than thane of men engaged in other employments: this opinion will appear to be correct if we reflect that other. men have to do wild their coevals and equate, who of course are generally willing and able to listen to appeal to their reason and interests, but. the Teacher has to do with, and is tried by human beings confessedly at tln-ir moat fry ing age, aad most come in collision with tenpers as numerous as bis pupils, or rather ss numerous as "tte wrtow'moAficWWinr -nd--'dtvsities of temper, (arising from caprice or accident) in each individual, X by the whole number of his pupils, the product of Which will bo " legion." 2d. Firmness): as this qualification is so nearly al lied to the foregoing, being io fact only a particular exercise ia a given emergency of the more general and more permanent virtue Patience, it does not seem necessary to enlarge upon it. 3d. Discrimination is iudi-ipensable, in order proptr Zy to classify, grade, encourage, punhih, award dis tinctions and decide between the conflicting claims of litigant besides, without the possession of this qualification, an Instructer cannot reasonably aspire to the attainment of our 4th requisite, Impartiality; for how can he decide impartially, or with an equitable apportionment to each of hit due without a clear discernment of his particular merits T at east he will never hare the virtue of impartiality ascribed to him by his pupils, unless they believe that he has di-crim'tMiir'g p"?. ere and coufide in his honest exercise of them, in I lie Teacher's exhibition of impartiality, it is not meant that he should like all, the good ai'id the bad, the id!e and the diligent equally well, fur to do thw would be morally wrong, if not humanly impossible, but tliat . ho should not let his partiality or preference interfere With his distribution of honors snd appointments, of appear any farther than is required fr I ho encour agement of virtue and the rebuke of vice. We have now gene throjgli with our enumeration of what we believe to be the cardinal virtues of an Instructer of youth, but we must confess that expe rience coustruins us to acknowledge that though car dinal, (hey are lameutaWy scarce : Why so t are Ihey graduated so high on the moral standard or thermometer that they cannot be attained? Cer tainly not, for they are frequently exhibited in other walks of life, and there are even many houorabki exceptions to the above censure in the ranks of Teachers ; but what other men are occasionally, Teachers should be stony, for reasons which will appear in the sequel. We think that the variety of the four excellences which we have sketched, may be accounted for from, the fact that many of our Teachers engage in the occupation with temporary and ulterior views; of course then they will not be Very amyous to go through the severe discipline ne eessaryw the acquisition of the enumerated qualifi cations, when the impelling motive in teaching is its emolument, which tbey purpose to expend in prepa ration for some -other profession. But a slili more frequent cause of the failure of Teacher to allaiu these moral qualifications, is found in the fact that very few of them choose their vocation with sufli eient forethought or antioipaliou of difficulties ; and as there cannot well be thought too many, or too se vere, it may not be ungrateful or unprofitable to twin! them out. In the first place, the Teacher at the houth has peculiar and local difficulties: boys will not be very prompt to obey when they see obedience extorted by the lash from a degraded class which they themselves are in the habit of commanding: but we will do the North Carolina boys the justice to say that we have good reasons for believing that they have been less injuriously affected by this pecu liar state of things than those of other Southern fctatee. Another source of the vexations or Instruc tors is found in the number and diversity 'of thnje whom be is thought to be under obligations to please, vix. the public, the trustees, parents, pupils, neigh " hours, in short all sorts and sizes except himself. With a slight change the wordi of Scripture, "Woe Unto you when all men are pleased (speak well) with vou," may be applied to Teachers, for it is then cer tain that they have not done their duty or greatly benefitted their pupils ; but the public reverses this aaying of Divine wisdom, and loo frequently declares Woe to the Instructer, if he please himself, or rather Woe to his popularity. All parents are not thus in tolerant to Teachers. We know a gentleman, once -Councillor of State, whose sons their Teacher was sometimes uuder the necessity of correcting : he knew it, and yet always met him with the same bland politeness that be had used at first. This gen tleman we regard as Having the least fallible Judg ment we have ever known. How far this opinion bat been influenced by the above circumstances, perhaps not known to ourself. A misjudging Public, blinded to its own interests, does not hesitate tocril oie'and censure even in the presence of its youth, the natural and inevitable imperfections of their bent intellectual Guides; but both their interests and duty ought to prompt Uiem to " Be to their faults a little blind, . .. To their virtnes very kind," It teems impossible for a Teacher to arrive at tnedinm that shall be generally approved: if he be active and energetic, he is loo frequently stigmatized as officious ; if he neglect diircipliue and only . exact Ohe number of recitations demanded by custom or statute, be m reproached for indolence. Between tbeee two horns of a dilemma, this Scylla and Cha rybdis, what better can he do thau to feel his weighty responsibilities both temporal and eternal, consult the Wise and good who are entitled to advise him, and Ibea aot according to bis convictions, relying for re. ward and support upon the lofty consciousness of rec titnde and the anticipated approbation which will come perhaps when he ia in his grave T This would be to derive support and consolation from the same .secret, silent consciousness of ultimate and Dosthn moua triumph which nerved. Socrates to continue bis Instructions, notwithstanding their rejection and his peraecuuou-oy na coumrymea and did not the re ' suit justify hit anticipations ? have not his nreceoti been borne triumphantly down the stream of time to our -day? and are they not now incorporated in our y stems of Moral Philosophy with the more sublime . doctrines of the Gospel ? W hat was it but tho an prove! of hi own conscience and his belief of the ultimate justice of subsequent timet, that enabled vVashtngteo to pear up rmder the imputation of tar. diners and even of timidity for not risking all upon the chance of a regular engagement, when he com manded only the skeleton of an American Army in the Jerseys? Had he not been capable of postpo ning press nt s4rausieut eciat to prospective and - lasting Fame, ha bad never acquired the title of " great" and " good,," nor hi country her proud pre ' eminence among the nations of the eartu.Itjsvery trae that of all Teachers, few, perhaps none, can ' expect to be enrolled with Socrates and Washington, : but a candla gives the tame tort of light at tht tuu, nud there, it no reason why Teachers should not inu la e tliera, though t an bumble distance. . ; . But of alt the trial of the Teacher, we doubt whether there I one more afflictive than the inerati-t-ide of hie pupils s this is no new complaint, for Quuicpliaa, nearly eighteen hundred years ago, said that nothing surprised him more than that pupils ehonld reverence their. Preceptor so little, A dis tinguished American scholar aud Teacher hat said, 1 the nrett.it temper of hit u- I pil toward, hitt which be regard, s what they will j say and thiuk of him after they thalj have been from nnder hi hand for ten years. ;.,,; ' b it is the reverse, the dark side of t he picture ;' there is a brighter. It is a pleasing hope, that among the wasnish urchins who own hie tway, there may be tome who may come to wield the helm of State, or " wake to ecstacy the living lyre." Beeitles, ia every thriving and weil regulated State, the Teacher is regarded at au iinfso'rtant public officer, and hom ing a station as respectable as any : indeed, if the dignity of a calling be determined by the degree in which it is removed from manual exertion, end ha to do with mind as the material on which jt i em ployed, then none can be preferred to th Teacher'. To this it may be added that there is no human pur suit which affords better opporluuitiea for , the culti vation of their own moral and intellectual nature. Last, but not least, there is the buoying consideration that when this " mortal shall have put oil immortal ity," the leaven of a good example and faithful in struction will be acting, spreading and descending down the stream of Time, until its kuell shall arreat all human concerns. WAKE FOREST. Oct. 13, 1845. The Whigs of New York Slate are preparing for the November elections with their old spirit, and with an energy ilial deserves, if it does not command, suc cess. The party is re-organiiing every where all third partyiam, of every namo-aud shade, is eschew ed, the best men in the ranks take the field and the ancient. fire of Whigism are re-iighted. -This ex ample will not be lost. The brilliant achievement of the Whigs of Ueorgia, who. have shown how fields may be won, by winning the most brilliant victory that ha graced the Whig Standard since the glorious days of 1910, will not be without its effect. The no ble spirit they evinced will be aroused in tho breasts of the Whigs elsewhere, and the Whig flag will yet wave in triumph over the Union redeemed . from tiie errors of I,ocofocoism. t- - What the Whigs of Georgia have d ne we rcpico at.bnt llieir achievement only pl.irtes in darker lij;!it the defeat which some of our on n frii-nJ.H g ive us here in Baltimore, by their defection at our recent election. Rome good Whigs wcro involved in this movement but they m'lst now regret that they even f ,r once de serted The Whig rUff. Many we. know tin. for they have said so.. We believe every good Whig who was so led off does rearet, not only tin' consequences of calinj his vote for a third party, bntthe vote itself. All such will be found hereafter fichtin" mirier the flag and the old name Whig now and Whig ever. Bui the men, whom Fisher Ames has classed as 've ry weak, or very vain, or very great hypocrites'. who pretend that they cannot find any party s jff.-i-tnt'.y honest for thrm. only because they cannot find party so regardless of decency as to give them place or honors those men, who now rank themselves a niung the third party and who will remain there on ly so loiiga they are allowed to be leaders will keep awny from the Whig party, if they wero never in it. Winnowed thus of the men, whom weakness made malignant, or vimity ridiculous, or hypncri.y contemptible, the Whig party of Baltimore will be prepared for coining contests, and endeavoring to em ulate the example of their brethren of (Georgia, he en tilled fully to share, not only in Hie joys but in the rlorv of the victory, which tho Whigs of the Union united will yet achieve. Baltimore Patriot. TflR FXRCUTIVH AM) THE TARIFF. The Wash in;;! on Correspondent of the N. York Journal of Coinmerco probably wfill in formed gFvfs us, under il.ite o! October the .11 h, the following inkling of tho fixod purpose of the Ex ecutive in regard to llio Tariff: "It it now a matter of certainty that, t lie course of the President and of the Sor rotary of the Troa pury in regard to lliiS Tariff will be siieh as will ijive entire satisfaction to the advocates of free trade. Tlieir recconimendations will go to tho full ex'ent of the propositions laid down by Mr. MrDuffie in hie late lulter. Tii? minimum prjn ciplo and the spccilic duties are doomed to utter extinction. The inepsaoe of the President find Ihe Secretary's annual report will settle this mat 'er, so f;r as they and their influence is concer ned. The question is, what wi ' I Congress do '." Sure enough, that. is the question. Fire in Fkehkrick. The Orphan Asylum, at tached to St. John's t'hurch, in Frederick, Md., waa, we regret to learn, destroyed by tire on the th inst. t was with great dilhculty that the L.lnireli ana the ding adjoining, occupied by the histereol t haruy, ere saved. The Ions is estimated at S'OOU. and we re glad to learn, is covered by insurance. It is ne rved to be the work of an inceudiary, and a large reward is offered lor his detection. This burning of Orphan Asylums, whilst Ihe children are asleep, is a refinement upon incendiarism, which shows a depra vity of heart, that leaves little Tor the most malicious to desire. It is to be hoped that the wretch who did it may be detected and punished. Baltimore I'at. . A Jury of Inquest was empannelled last cven- g, on the Spartanburg road, four miles south wk! of litis place, to inquire into the cause or causes that led to the duath of one John V. Kadcliffb, a middle aged man. From tho evi dence, ii appeared that the body was found 15 -t-pa from the road, where .accordin;' to tho opinion of a medical gcntletn in, it had remained dead twenty-four hours. It was also ascertained, that lie had been working about tihelhy, Citave- and county, as a tailor, and dissipating, con siderably of laie. Verdict of tho Jury " Visita tion of Providence." Thus has the fiend Alcohol consirrned auollier victim to a premature grave. lAncaln Courier. We regret to learn that Mr. Fbfdfrick Limebakuek, of ibis County, was found ded in bed on Sunday looming last, lie was an upright and good citizen, and has hrhl lor several years the office of a deputy Sheriff H5 was about 40 years of ago, and has left behind him many a relative and friend to mourn this sudden dispen sation of. Providence. Ibid. IT A. WiutxeYv Esq , of New York, the pro jector of a grand rail road from Lake, Michigan to the Columbia River, who has just returned Iroin a survey of the proposed route, has addressed a letter to the editors of the National lnteil.frencer from St. Louis, in which he avows house if per fectly satisfied with the feasibility of hie project, having found all he desired, and much more than he expected when he set nut. , Shociino Death We are pained to state that a Mr. Howell, an elderly citizen of this coun ty, lost hit life on Saturday 'laa, in Scarritt's Prai rie, in the following manner : lie was walking near a dry tree to which fire had"beon aet, when a large limb, nearly burnt off from the trunk, fell upon him, breaking one of his legs, and otherwise so disabling and confining him that he waa whol ly unable to move frim the spot. In this most distressing situation he remained until the fireT as it gradually consumed Jhe limb, approached the wretched man, aeized on hit helpless frame, and brought him to a painful end. Towards the close f the appalling scene his wife accidentally reacbd the fatal spot ; but he lived only a few minutes after her arrival Alton (III) Telegraph. Accident A free colored woman was killed yesterday morning, on the Portsmouth Ratljftoad. Shi had taken pasaige for Suffolk, where she belongs, and as the cars were about moving off she came out on the platform to but her friends good bye, when her foot elippfld and losing hr balance, she, was precipitated across the track, the wheels of the car passim? over her iiody and killing ber iusumly.Aorotfc Herald. MACKENZIE'S BUytt- - A (h(r a.0 m 'persons at' a distance' from pf puWC,lU, of lhi, celebrald book, who will not know it content except ibftiugh the well for the iprem generally to ninte HM Cm. nection, im inner wui ,.,, uu,u,. iviiuw ing fact : ltt. That for twenty-five yeart the3ta,te of New York has been under the control and in th hanila of a 'body of men w ho have openly 'iiphc ltl' n4 carried out measure producing, at '"limes.' great diatrett and general bankruptcy, uettrey. iug the property of the widow and the father)?,, When these very. men were convinced, and ad mitted, privately, that these measures were hot tic to iht interests of the country. 2 1. That while they were originating and con minifiwtinjv the destruction of.the United Slatet Bank, and in the legislature at Albany, and ifl Congress at Washington, were declaring thai an i-elitutioi), waa uifconeiituiional, dangcrou to the Idier'ties of the people, and hostile to a repub l.can gwernine'it, they were' concocting nmns tu charter another bank, of the tame kind, U lie established in the city of Naw York. 3d. That in their cunlidentiai intercourse mi each other, they condemned the measures which tliev oub'iclv anoroved as.l"!r tors ami ruiers, 4ih. That they were iii the h-bit of t?ing jihuir offices and political' power to turn the elec tions, by means of betting on Ilia result, aoc that one great end in vicwJn tl'.ejr .whole po':til ro irse, was TO make money by gtnibling wttlt tli& means with which llieir posit.on furnibed theni. 5 h. That while they were engaged in politi cal hosi.iliiv to banks, they were constantly in creasing tlieir number and charters ; and one of them, vvho was, on account of this hostility, chu sen by Mr. Van Buren as Sub Treasurer of iho cily of -New York, (Stephen Allen) recommend ed tiie charter of a political bankr'lhe profits of w hich w ere inart to be devoted topoKtkal pur poses, and in maintaining tho ascendancy of the Loro Foro parly 6;h. That they had the utmost contempt for the people of their own party, and considered llierr as mere dupes instrument in meir nanus m:. the accomplishiiieiit of ilieir own confessed pur posfrs of selfishness and baseness. 7;h. That tlieir gambling and bettingon elec tions, and their ultra measures of plundering-, was successful until they met wi:h tremendous loss e in their Wall street operations, and wagers on the election of 1310, when tbey found it impossi ble any longer to save theinselvet, and through Jesse Hoy! tbey saddled these immense deficien cics,!ipon the governnient, and left Hoyt (proba bly with his consent) to be the scape-goat. 6:h. That at a time of almost unequalled pres sure in the money market, when the Government at Washington Ind their drafts on the New York Cuslotn House dishonored, these men had, of the monies of the United States, nearly a h .iff nirffion of dollars wi h which they were gambling, hy rais in;; and depressing stocks, upholding insolvent hanks, and furnishing means to carry on clec lionH, ami that the government lost nearly the whole of this money. l)i h. That nearly all the men named in Mack enzie's book as prominent in these matters, (that is, thirty out of forty) are now high in office and in' the confidence of the parly, and control the ap pointments at Washington. The effect of these disclosures on the Whig party has not been to place these men in any more unfavorable light than previously, nor have tho revelations created surprise generally. The effect on tiie Loco foco rank and file, at first, wat chagrin at the discovery they had been mere dopes and tools in Sincerely upholding and ap plauding men, as prearhers in politics, when the preachers were admitting, behind the curtain, they had no smceri'y in what l Ire y preached, and wern laughing at tho ease with which they gulled their deluded followers. They felt and feel far more' anger towards Mackenzie, as the instrument of their exposure, in being thus duped, than towards the authors of the imposture. As to the question of 'he morality of making disclosures, and the dispute about private corres pondence, that is a matter for the parties to set tle with Mackenzie. The public are not to be diverted from the disclosures thsmselves, by a discussion on this point. The widows and or phans who, in thousands, were left homeless and penniless, hy the hypocrisy and knavery of the Albany Regency, will here find recorded the con fessions of the authors of their sufferings, anil the wickedness of their motives in producing them. Ar. Y. Express. PutctPE On Sunday afternoon a man named I. M. Schau, mate of the schooner Comet,' of Plymouth, North Caniina, committed suicide by cutting a deep gash in each of his arms, just at the elbow joint, by which'he severed the principal arteries; and although discovered immediately after he had inflicted ihe wounds, he bled to death before the pjiysiciatis, who were called, could render any service. The deceased was about 03 ypars-of age, and was boarding at the house of Mr. John Winters, at C"2 Rosevelt street, lie had been complaining, and on Saturday was bled. On Sunday he told Mr. Winters that if he died at his house he wished him to throw his things into ihe sea, all except his quadrant, which he told ?.Ir Winters to take himself. After giving these directions he said he would like to lie down, and was directed to a couch in the " family room," or rather kitchen of the house, where Mrs. Winters was cngagf d about some culinary matters. Schau had been in the room but a short time, when he requested the landlady to retire, a he woiild oto sleep'; she accordingly left the room ; he was at this tiillc lying on the bed with his coal on. In a few minutes aiterwards Mr, W. went into the room and discovered his guott with his coat off, and both arms cut in the manner described above, still holding the knife which ho had used in his hand. 'I wo physicians wero called. but the wounds were past healing, and the wounded man was soon a corpse. N. Y. Expres$. Save the Pf.nmes.- Thc? people along the way. Iroui AJcclfora to Camden, IM. J., were, few d -ys since, si ruck by a singular phenomenon in the road, for miles together, there was regular deposite of rents ; and as there was no claimant, the people who lived by the was, turned out io gather up the drippings, aud a pretty "collection' was taken up. for miles there were receivers. The road and ruts were trodden close, and even tlic charcoal men, who invariably sleep on their coat in the progress downward, were wide awake, it appears that a ba? con taining ten thousand cents had been put on the top of a stage, and after some shaking, either the atring broke, or a holo was worji. One of the pennies; not having any particular attachment to the sack, pupped out, and then another went, and so each followed bis file leader, until the bag was empty, ana me roaa wen linen. Phila. V. S. Gazette. A Meit Preserver. An instrument hasbeen invented in England called " Carson's Meal Pre server. It consists of a syringe, having sharp, pointed nipple, the side of which are pieixed with a number of small holes. The syringe is to be filled with brine, which it forces, oat of the small holes through-lhe whole body of a piece of meat into which the point has been pressed ; and the operation of pickling ia .thus thoroughly performed io a few minutes. We learn from the New York Courier that Mr. CoLTOfi'a L'fe and Timet of Henry Clay ia rap idly pasting through the prest, and the firal vol ume willeoorKbe ready for delivery. The wide icepe which the nature of the tubject will pre rent, end the universal regard in which the char icier end tervicet of Mr. Cur are held, have ! created i 'ticep and general interest in the public mind . in tins forthcoming work. , We have rea tun to believe that it will fully answer the public expectation. The following passage gives a very interesting and graphic sketch of one of the very many able and eloquent speeches of Mr. Cur, which have never been published : Among , the lost speeches of Mr. Clay, the memory of which lives while they who heard them live, and the thought of which awakens to new life the feelings they produced, was one delivered at . Lexington, at late as May 1813, the occasion aud history of which are at follow : After Mr. Clay had retired from the Senate of the United Slates, in 1341, till the next year, during which time it was expected he would be nominated for President I j 1 1 , i . - T7- . i n. . . . ' -B -- j .... , rr- nen's, nut only to vilify hun, but to bring into o- didrn the twenty -seventh Congress, which was . I. l..,. ... 1. : L. it. -1 . .. i i l. i . . i nc msi in n lot. ii nir. ly lisil liau a ' ( A , , . - . . . - , i Senator, and tjieendjtfy.y: directed' fo establish the policy and measures call ed fur by the political revolution of 1810. Mr. , Clay was virulently traducod by some base per sons in Lexington and that neighborhood. As a perpetual dropping wears a stone, so Iheso inces sant attacks, though false and foul, and known to be such, if unnoticed and unrepelled, might pro duce injurious effects on the' common mind. He therefore resolved, and caused a notice to bo pub lished, that ho would meet his fellow. citizens of Fayette and the adjoining counties, at Lexingtoh, on a day specified, to repel these charges. His friends, whom on this occasion he had not con sulted, regretted the step as being unnecessary. They thought these attacks unworlhy of notice. This difference of opinion was painful to Mr. Clay, and no doubt contributed not a little to that depth and power of feeling w hich he manifested on that occasion. Tho notice brought together a great concourse of people, whom no place but the pub lic square could accommodate. The patriarch statesman was to appear before his old friends and neighbors of forty years' standing, onc more and for the last time, in that capacity in which he had not been heard for many years, and in which no one ever expected to hear him again. And it was the vile tongue of calumny that was to be encountered. The following account of this address was fur nished for the author hy a highly respected fellow cilizen of Mr. Clay, and tho words of the opening, as quoted, are exact. When Mr. Clay rose, he was evidently much excited. He commenced by say ing, with marked emphasis " Fellow-citizens: I am now an old man quite an old man." Here ho bent himself downward. " But yet, it will be found, I am not too old to vindicate my principles, to 6tand by my friends, or to defend myself" raising his voice, louder and louder, at each suc cessive member of the sentence, and elevating his nerson in a most impressive manner. He then proceeded : " It so happens, that I have again located my self in the practice of my profession, in an office within a few rods of the one which! occupied, when, more than forty years ago, 14irst came a- mong you,, an orphan and a stranger, and your fathers took me by the hand and made me what I am. I feel like an old stag, who has been long coursed by the hunters and the hounds, through brakes and briars and o'er distant plains, and has at last returned to his ancient lair to lay himself down and die. And yet the vile curs of party are barking at my heels and tho bloodhounds of per sonal malignity are aiming at my throat. I scors AND DEFT THEM AS I EVEB DID." When he utlerred these last words, he raised himself to his most erect posture, and elevated bis hands and arms, wide extended above his head, seeming to have nearly doubled the height of his tall person. Tiie effect was overwhelming in describable. TtJ have any approximate idea of the effect of this speech, which continued for hours, fully sustained throughout, in vindication of the twenty seventh Congress, of Whig policy and principles, and in defence of the orator himself, against his calumniators, one should have a view of all the attributes of eloquence ascribed to Mr. Clay in this chapter, the use of scarcely one of which waa wanting on that occasion. Nor should it be forgotten, that he was then sixty six years old. It may be aske'd, if any orator can be named in all history, who ever produced any effect, in so few words, and those the mere exordium of his oration! They all knew that what he said' was true. " I am au old man." Didn't they know that ? And the moment he said it they began to weep. When ho pointed to his present office, and the placo of the old one, a few rods distant. they all knew that. " I came here more than 40 years ago, an orphan and a stranger." They all knew that, " Your fathers took me by the hand and made me what I am." It is impossible to conceive of the effect of this. They wept like children, and only wished they could do as much. They could at least stand by him. " I feel like an old stag." Now he is speaking to Kentucky hunters. Their ears are all erect for what u coming. And by the time he had gone through with the figure, and its application, the struggle between the eympaihy which streamed from the eves of some, and the indignation which clench- the fists of others, of that vast multitude all knowing it was true, every word of it was like the throes of a mountain in agony. A part of the sublfmifv" Of ihe spectacle consisted in sconce rn( what might be the fruit of such passion. For some of his detainers were present. But when Mr. Clay rose in all the majesty of his own lof tiness, threw bis arms on high, and his voice out into the heavens he stood under its canopy and said, " Ifcorn and defy them as I ever didT1 tbey dashed away their tears, and resolved to be as stout ol heart as he, and to vindicate bis honor- A reply was expected. But prudence got the better of the purpose. .ATt-RKNTERsSENTEticEtiEdwardO'Conner and John Van Stcenburg, Anti-Renters, convicted at Delhi. Delaware county, N. Y. of the murder of Sheriff Steele, have been sentenced to be hanged on the 2Uth of next month. Daoiel W. Squires, Moses Earle, Zera Preston and Daniel Northrop, charged wilh participation hi the mur der of Steele, have been- sentenced to imprison ment in the penitentiary for life. .Thirteen others, w1k pleaded guilty of manslaughter, io the first, second, tliirtLand fourth degrees, were sentenced to the penitentiary for various terms, ranging from two to ten years. From the Charlotte Journal, ' '' 'THE ARMV WORM. ' Ai the appearance of this worm his caused oroe .uneasiness among our agricultural friends. we insert oeiow. some account ot its nature fur-i n shed U us by a friend. From the aftiehj belovr it Will be seen thai this -worn)- in great numbers is caused by a very dry summer, and is the same species of worm generally seen every year by larmera oe green corn, out in very small numbers. From its nature, our agricultural friends need fear do danger, as the few cold days and frost that we have had has nearly destroyed them and they will hardly make thau- appearance again un til next summer, and th iir number then will de pend in a great measure, wc expect, on the state ot the weather, wl.elhcr it is dry or wet. As some have put off towin- their wheat on account of the injury to be apprehended from this worm. we can say that we believe that they may now tow without any apprehension of danger, for we have examined some of them in a lot near our office and find them seriously affected by the cold, some dead and those that are alive wi hout any disposition to move or do injury to the rege. tatioo near the in. Read the article : ERUCA OR ARMY WORM. As there is a good deal of conjecture amnnar the people about this worm, to know tho nature of it may be a relief to some minds. Zdograph ers call it tho Eruca. , It is not an uncommon worm. We sec the same every year. The larrre si,iKki, Mui.lt- r..iu.. ,t.. i . . rriL i.uniwi ' T iwi iu win ury Buiiiuier. j n . . ftwflt J he -ewe? -of-a butterttv A Mr. Guodart took some of ihese Ihe day thev came out of tho egg. which ws the 4ih of May, he nourished them w ith the leaves of nettles till the lltb of June same year, at which time it ba. pan to prepare for its transformation to the state in which it is called chrysalis oraurelia. In this aurelian stale it continued changing (its head downward) 19 days, at the end of which there proceeded from this aurclia a butterfly with four wings, and from its elegant colours, lie called it the peacock's eye. In tlieir first state as worms. they feed on hard, coarse diet, as leaves, grass, &c. in their aurelian state they subsist without any food. In their mature state they live on a more delicate and tender diet, as honey from plants, &c. Those who think they will go down in the ground to winter and rise in the spring with vegetation, will not have thpir fears realized for it is contrary to. their tiaKiro. I have some of them feedin they do not look well to-day I do not think they can BtanJ the told. Oct. 14, 1845. DEATH FROM HYDROPHOBIA. There is scarcely (sayajhe Richmond Times) a mode of death more revolting to our ' feelings than that from hydrophobia. It is so mysterious', and its symptoms so terrible, that it strikes us with awe. The subtle virus often remains pas sive in the human system for months after it is communicated by the bite from the rabid animal, and then suddenly bursts forlh in most alarming symptoms of hydrophobia ! The long agony of apprehension with the victim, what pen could de scribe its painful intensity ! An appalling death of this description has just occurred in Reading, Pa. The last Journal of that town gives the par ticulars as follows : About two months ago a lad of some seven or eight years of age, named Howard, son of Mr, VVm. Yohn of this borough, was bitten in tho cheek by a dog supposed at the time to be rabid, and exhibiting all tho symptoms of hydrophobia. A great sensation was created at the time, but the excitement was allayed by the publication ot a Card by one of the principal Physicians, who gave it as his opinion that the dog wus not rabid. The wound in the check of the boy was toon lieal eih and all fears or even thoughts of the circum stance Vvere forgoVfen, until Wednesday evening, when the boy was taken ill, and very soon exhib ited symptoms of this dreadful disease. Physi cians were immediately-called in, who at once pronounced the case one of hydrophobia, but were unable to afford relief. 1 he poor little sutterer was visited with frequent fits or spasms on Thurs day and Thursday night,. during which he raved and writhed in all the agony pf confirmed mad ness, tearing his clothes and bed clothes to tat ters and rendering it sometimes dangerous for persons to be in the same room. Friday morning his sufferings were terminated by his death. The sympathy excited in thecommunity thro - out this painful scene was intense. The house was surrounded day and night by crowds, and the owner of the dug and our Town Council, to whose criminal neglect this dreadful event is mainly at tributed, havcrbcen and are still spoken of in the severest terms. We understand that severaloth er individuals were bitten at the same time by the same dog, who are now undergoing a course of medical treatment, which it is hoped and presum ed will preserve them front a similar fate. Perilous Adventure and a Timelt Rescue; We learn from the New Haven Courier, that a dauffhter of Mr. S P. Dav is, of that place, aged about 14 years, a few days ago got out of the win dow upon the roof of the portico of the house, to sweep oft some leaves anu ain wnicn nau accu mulated there, and that while engaged in sweep,- mr. her feet slipucd from under her, and she slid down to the eaves and over the trough, but for tunately succeeded in grasping the trough with her hands and held on to it, sustaining", in this way, the weight of her person, while she called for assistance. Her cries reached the ears of a gentleman pas sin", who, on discovering lur perilous situation, sprang ta the doorrand with a loud rap obtained immediate entrance, un peing enquire u oi w-nai w:a8 wanting, be made some hurried answer, and asked the way to tho roof of Ihe portico. And on reaching it, he slid down to the eaves, and by dint of his own well-directed and collected .eff orts, succeeded in rescuing ihe girl from her per ilous situation ; without injury, and then started off without letting his name be known. The pa rents of the girl have, however, publicly .request ed an interview with him, so that they may ten der him in person their grateful acknowledge ments for his rescue of the daughter from impen ding death. A hit AT Mr. Calhoun. The Charleston Mercury by the way, the only Lucofoco paper in the country that has had the manliness to de nounce the tergiversations of the Polk adminis tration has recently had some very severe strictures upon matters and things at Washing ton. The Washington Union, staggered at the astounding result of the election in Georgia, artfully takes advantage of the defeat of the Locotocos, by suggesting that they owe it tour. Calhoun and his friends ! It asks : - " Is there any force in the suggestion of a friend at our elbow, that it was the late eccentric and in considerate and ill-starred course of the "Charles ton Mercury," which has, in;, some measure, paralysed the democracy of Georgia, and con tributed to Us defeat,?' s All the signs indicate that there is to be a war of extermination affainst that portion of the Souihern wing of the party who are friends of Mr. Calhoun, and that all the ettorts ol tne roia administration are to be directed to give Mr. Beuton the succession to the Presidency. ' Baltimore Patriot. ' Wit and JcdomejtT. Wit is.brushwood, judgment is timber the rsUtnakeg the brigh.est Dame, but the Utter gives the roost luting beat. sale or JvmanoEs! "uT"""1 T ,3tb d, Number, g shall expose at Public Hals to the ki,, k:j der, at the lata resilience of MtciAti, Tauarssv dee'd. about IS miles Netlh-wrtt of Ealeioh ft milet from Roger's X Roads) :. ' v Knra likely veghoes, embracing Boys, Women snd Children. Tho Bale will be without reserve, on a eredii Six months. , , KELSOX T. THOMPSON, OftoUr II. 184V . - gt WINES BRANDIES; iuv Bt eserre Madeira Vintage of 1896, very superior DuffGordon't Pale ami Cold SHERRY WINS Treble Grape I'OHT H7A warranted direst importation , Dunand St Co's, celebrated FKEXCH BRAND T Vintage 1805 Ottrd, Dupuy Jr Co. snd Hemeasydd. Warranted now in Outturn House CHAMPAIGN, in pint snd quart Bottles, tl the different brinda CLARET snd KHEKlSH XVIXES, in cases ef one dozen earh AH of the above ere warranted to be of direct im portation. ' , AJf, Manongnh-la Old .RYE. WIITSJCE Y . .. Peppermint an. I ('iniiam. ii CORDIAL Almond anil iVfaiiWiiour "d - -Tngotlier with til artb Ira in the Grocery Line, For sale by PKCEIjAND & H AM., iVo. 69, Light St. Wharf, BALTIMORE. October 10. 1815. 8U2m NEW FALL AMD WINTER GOODS. THE Subcriliers ere opening sn extensive assort ment of OK Y GOODS, consisiinft of CLOTHS of slmost every color and quality, for Dres, Fioci and Over-Cunts ; (lansimcrts. tonn Jl per yard lo ihe fir-t quality, in great arictie; very superior plain snd fancy Silk Velvet plain lin k and fancy Balin, plain black and figured fhallie,, f6r Veils. Alo, a general supply of Silk, lmlw wool, Merino and Cotton Hosu ry ; Linen 8lnru, nhirt Bosoms and Collars, of Ihe laleit styles; fine Silk and Cambric pocket Handkerchiefs ; 'ain and flguied Scarfs and Cravats; Suspenders; blaik tins' light Silk snd. Kid Glomes; Hatin and Boinbaiins Stocks and Tics, &c ; wi:h a complete assortment uf Tailors' trimmings, at whole-ale and rctuil. Together wilh a large lot of Heady-made Clothco, both of their own snd of Northern manufacture. The above gimda were huught for Cash, with great care by one of ihe firm, in New York, and will lis sold for a small advance on ihe firal cost for cash, or to regular customers on a short credit. They intend to offer such inducements, in quality and price, as will make it the interest of all lo purchase. Call and see Ihclr stock. The reports of Kashlons, embracing the latest Ed. ropcan and American styles, received monthly. Their grutrful acknowledgments are tenderej lo their friends and patrons fir past favors, and a con tinuunce is reijiirlfully and most earnestly requested, SMITH & BIU0S. Raleigh, Oct 8.15. ' 80-8w NOTIC'E.-I have been appointed by His Ei cellency W. A. Ghiham, Governor of the State of North Carolina, a Commissioner for the State of Virginia, wilh full power lo take Ihe acknowledge ment or proof of any Deed, Mortgage, or other con veyance of Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, ly ing or being in Ihe. Slate of North Carolina ; and te I uke the private examination of married women, par lies tlu.ri to, in the manner now required by Law, or any olher writing under seal, to be used in the State of North Carolina; and to administer, an Oatbor Af firmation to any person who shall be willing or di rous lo make such Uath or Affirmation before me- . lo take JJepotiltona, and to examine Witnesses, "Hit der any Commission or Commissions, enianatin; from snv of the Courts of the State of North Caroli nn, relating to any cause depending, or to be biought, in any of the said Courts. Any business under said Commission, which the Public may detire, I wil at tend lo strictly and fuilhfuHy. ALEXANDER DON NAN, Petersburg, Vs. Petersburg, Va. Oct. 3, 1845 . 79-Ira Valuable Real Estate FOK SALE. Y VIRTUE of a Decree of the Court of Equi ty for the County of Granville, I shall offer al public sale on Mond.iy, the third day ol inovemDcr next, at the Court House door in the Town of Ox ford, the HOUSE and LOT in said Town, Iwlonf ing to the Heirs of the late Unnjamin Kiltreu, anu now occupied by Col. James Nuiall. ss A IloiiNe of UutcrtaiusrseBi. This I,ol lies on the Main Street of Ihe Village, within one hundred and twenty yards of the Court House, and is favorably situated either lui a ISuiincs establishment, or a I'rivate rnaidenre. I shall slso otX.r for sale on the third Momlsy in November next, at the Court House door in ihe City of Raleigh, a TRACT OF LAND in the County of VVske, belonging to the same Estate, Mug on th water of Urier Creek, adjoining the lands of W il liam Boylan, Asa Blake and others, and containini about three hundred acres. -The House and Lot in Oxford will he sold uponi credit of one and two years, wilh interest on the lul instalment after one year, from the day of cale. The Land in the County of Wake will be f J upon a credit of one, two, and three years tie ond end third instalments to bear interest after pn year from the day of sale. THO. B. LITTLEJOHN, C. M-E- Oxford, 8epi. 20, 1845. The last offer, & no mistake! To Ms Sold without reserve THIS TIME! rpHE UsDiasiewiD will sell poeitmly, wiling JL recrre,onMondoy,llie 17lhof Rovemlier, Ing tlie Monday of V ske County Court.) thst t able Property in the City of Raleib'b. knowu n SMITH S 13 Kit K BUlLliING. It is situated on Fayctleville Street, si the corn of that Street and Hargeii, and is square snd 60 feel high, farming two of the best is enienUin Raleigh for any kind of b,ne"- "J , . n-i -ea t. -i....i.v,i,. mmire, from one enn Ih. otter, upon each floor, so thst it, u-.. Jl.k-.nnro.rhed without having to psss the ground floor, two eleganl gtore Korn. constructed in th. very best sty l - pense , .nd.rnea.h sr. two fin. d r, U . s ... ,iBi.irfi nv u gant Tsnem.n,s MglTtiu bavin, 4. and the other ." " -.i. Rooms : end in the rear oi u . n.,, Mouses. new Micnen sou uiu , T; inS This valuable Building is on. of the best, most convenient rfht lishments in the Hrste, ana "":"." - erdin City, With a slight alteration, might be con lo a splendid Hotel. It cost m cU00 TtSKirlO! nppro"" "'b" .J,-.!, ofth. 6UU of North Catolini i at Ksle gb. WM. Hit.'". JNO. BUrFAl.M. . DAVID CARrtl'. B. T. BLAKE,, W, L. OTEV. Raleigh, Aug. 3J, 1815. M: ft
The Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 24, 1845, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75